I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 243: Stepping on Their Shoulders

Actually, Mu Qiu and the others weren’t just eating and chatting; they were thinking while eating.

The show team announced that the first to complete the task would win, so naturally, they competed to see who would finish first.

Later, they discovered that all the tasks pointed to this Qingci Academy, claiming that one only needed to give a little to get what they wanted.

Then, an intelligent electronic screen appeared in the academy, stating that they would need to take an exam.

The card on the bamboo in the academy also mentioned that to complete the task, they needed to pass the exam.

So, does completing the task necessarily mean passing the exam?

Or is passing the exam just a sufficient but unnecessary condition for completing the task?

In that case, besides the exam, what else should they accomplish?

The academy was filled only with the sound of eating, oh, and the sound of Guan Yu forcibly chatting with the staff.

"Are you serious?! Big brother, you’re a good person!"

Guan Yu suddenly let out a soprano, then ran back while clutching a bag of chips: "Quick, quick, quick! I’ve got intel! It’s really on that bamboo!"

Mu Qiu took a big sip of yogurt, looking up at her in disbelief: "You managed to chat that out?!"

"Of course?! I’m the community committee nominee at the entrance of our village! Hurry, go support Brother Huai!"

Mu Qiu finished her yogurt in two gulps, then stood up with the others and ran towards Shi Yuhuai.

Shi Yuhuai had already come down from the scaffolding, holding a card, handing it to them to see.

[Achieving above this height should meet the director’s request for something slightly obvious yet not easy to get, right?]

The staff’s muttering again.

A few heads clustered together, seriously reading the sentence, while a line of photographers formed behind them, with some having left the academy, probably to use big machines to shoot from above.

Li Yang’s wits came back, and after reading this sentence, he looked up and said, "This means that further up there should be more important information, and maybe it’s some kind of clue card."

Shi Yuhuai nodded, "But this was the highest card I could get while standing on the scaffolding."

After saying that, he paused, glanced at Mu Qiu and Guan Yu, and added, "This is the tallest scaffolding."

Mu Qiu: ... What does he mean by looking at them like that?

Cheng Zhirang glanced at her expression and asked Shi Yuhuai, "Have you checked the ones below?"

"Checked, just some useless nonsense."

(Staff: How can you say that, Brother Huai?!)

Cheng Zhirang nodded, looking up, "So we still need to find a way to see the cards above."

Li Yang looked at the few cards fluttering at the top of the bamboo, a bit worried.

"But how do we look at them? Brother Huai is the tallest among us, and he used the tallest scaffolding, yet he still couldn’t reach."

Cheng Zhirang thought for a moment and first asked Shi Yuhuai, "How many scaffolds in total?"

Shi Yuhuai, having guessed his plan, said, "There are two lower ones and only this one high one."

"Bring both lower scaffolds here; two people can stand on them flat and should be able to bear the weight of a girl."

Shi Yuhuai immediately turned to move the scaffolding, conveniently grabbing Li Yang, who was watching the show.

The three girls left standing exchanged glances.

Guan Yu swallowed, "Let, let a girl step on you guys?"

Cheng Zhirang nodded, "You can transfer from the high scaffolding to our shoulders, two people carrying one person, with three below ensuring the scaffold’s stability, it should work."

Shu Ran glanced at her slit cheongsam, even though she was wearing leggings underneath, but sitting on their shoulders from that angle in front of cameras...

It’s simply disastrous.

She sighed, voluntarily giving up this close contact with handsome guys: "Never mind, I’m wearing a cheongsam."

Guan Yu also took a step back, blocking her own shame-inducing pink petal skirt, "I’ll pass too."

So... it leaves only Mu Qiu.

Mu Qiu furrowed her brows at Guan Yu, "Sister Guan Yu, aren’t you wearing pants?"

"For the sake of my aura, I took them off after riding the bike."

"... So it’s me going?"

Doesn’t this leave her as the only female guest wearing publicly-acceptable pants?

But sitting on two male guests’ shoulders so high up, especially if one of them is Cheng Zhirang, wouldn’t her weight during weight loss be exposed?

The recently-gained handsome boyfriend finding out her weight doesn’t meet his expectations and then coldly breaking up with her... that would be too much.

Besides, moments of grabbing attention and being "exclusively favored" by male guests shouldn’t be her place as an ordinary person to shine.

So she also quietly took a step back.

"Actually, I think Li Yang could play our role? Plus, he’s taller than us, making it even more convenient."

"Why am I more convenient?"

Li Yang and Shi Yuhuai happened to each carry a scaffold over, just in time to hear Mu Qiu’s words.

Mu Qiu touched her nose, feeling a bit guilty, "I mean, three people stabilizing the scaffolding, I think we can do it too."

"You all stabilize it... you want me to step on Brother Cheng?!?"

Li Yang put down the scaffold, face full of rejection, "That’s a girl’s position! Also, I’m heavy; if we three big guys go up and collapse the scaffold, what then?!"

"..." That’s a valid point too, the three guys going up could weigh four or five hundred pounds, collapsing the scaffold would be risky.

Mu Qiu hesitated a moment, "What if I’m also heavy..."

"What are you worried about?" Guan Yu enjoyed the drama, reassuring her: "Rest assured, with Brother Cheng and Brother Huai, even if you weigh down their shoulders, they won’t say you’re heavy... oh, Brother Huai might."

Shi Yuhuai gave her a side glance.

Li Yang squeezed out a mischievous grin, comforting her, "Don’t worry, if it’s me, I wouldn’t say it either."

Mu Qiu fake smiled, "Well, thank you, do you think you can play the carrier role?"

Shu Ran teased him, "Li Yang hasn’t carried a girl on his back before, right?"

"..." Well, he really hadn’t.

"Alright, it’s you," Guan Yu pulled the scaffold in front of Mu Qiu, "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Brother Cheng and Brother Huai, letting you sit on their shoulders together!"

"A handsome brother on the left and a long-legged brother on the right, if it were me, I’d be so happy I’d go weak in the knees. Alas, I wore a damn skirt today."

Mu Qiu followed her words, imagining herself sitting on Cheng Zhirang’s shoulders, probably hugging his neck...

She gulped, eyes shining: "You’re making it sound so tempting, I’ve decided to make a little contribution for the team!"

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Do you remember the sufficient and necessary conditions from math?

Drinking mineral water quenches thirst, so drinking mineral water is a sufficient condition to quench thirst.

But thirst can be quenched not only by drinking mineral water, you can also drink soda, or soup, right, so it’s not necessary.

Therefore, drinking mineral water is a sufficient but not necessary condition to quench thirst.

(A more classic example: You are Chinese, but Chinese people are not you. This is a sufficient but not necessary condition.)